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The dissertation consists of four recitals: one chamber music recital, two solo recitals, and one lecture recital. The repertoire of these programs was chosen with the intention of demonstrating the capability of the performer to deal with problems arising in works of varying types and of different historical periods.

The concerto enjoys a position of centrality within the oeuvres of many contemporary Nordic composers: the genre often functions as a vehicle for the exploration of advanced compositional techniques and aesthetic preoccupations, and the resulting works are well-represented on recordings and in the concert hall. Yet this repertory has largely been neglected in scholarship. Through detailed analysis of works by Per Nørgård, Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg, and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, this thesis develops analytical technologies for a genre which has received less musicological attention than it deserves. Placing a particular emphasis on the theatrical aspects of concerto performance, the project explores the application of three lines of enquiry, each of which has been theorised in some detail: agency (Cone, Maus, Cumming), physicality (Clarke, Cox, Larson), and space (Brower, Williams). Each of these lines of enquiry has been directed at the concerto sporadically, if at all – even though concertos make particularly compelling and potentially enriching case studies for the theoretical models in question. This thesis represents the first sustained attempt to explore the concerto with reference to these bodies of literature. The analytical models developed have wider applicability, to concertos both within and without the Nordic arena. I draw attention at numerous points to ways in which they can illuminate works by Ligeti, Birtwistle, Musgrave, Berio, and Lutosƚawski, among others. The project also has wider implications for our understandings of Nordic identity, virtuosity, and musical modernism at the turn of the twenty-first century.

This thesis argues that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s sound art program The Listening Room has been , both through broadcasting and related activities, a major factor in the life and growth of sound art in Australia. The thesis also argues that, internationally, The Listening Room is accepted as a leading member of the world sound art community by its contribution to the artistic development and wider recognition of the genre. In order to examine the influence of The Listening Room, interviews and case studies with Australian composers and overseas producers and observers are recounted and analysed. Finally, pertinent data from historical summaries, interviews and case studies are conflated to demonstrate the depth and significance of The Listening Room. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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In my thesis, Performing a Political Shift: Avant-Garde Music in Cold War Spain, I argue that towards the end of the 1950s the Spanish ultra-conservative regime of Francisco Franco started to promote avant-garde music. This music contrasted with the aesthetically conservative one that had been promoted since the end of the Civil War (1936-1939). I examine the causes of this shift and reveal for the first time that they are connected to specific trends in Spanish politics and policies. In terms of national politics, the second phase of the Spanish dictatorship, from the late 1950s until Franco’s death in 1975, was dominated by young ministers who wanted to distance themselves from previous cabinets, mostly controlled by ultra-nationalist fascist politicians. These younger politicians styled themselves as part of a ‘technocratic’ regime. Thanks to its supposed ‘objectivity’ and ‘purely musical’ ideology-free concerns, avant-garde music sat well with these technocrats’ views of modern Spain, that is, a country benefitting from ‘objective’, ideology-free progress. On an international level, the defeat in the 1940s of Mussolini and Hitler, Franco’s main allies, had resulted in isolation for Spain. In order to break this isolation, the Spanish regime started to make a sustained effort at the end of the 1950s to establish diplomatic relations with other Western countries. These relations resulted in cultural, economic and military agreements with European democracies and the US. I also consider why recent Spanish musicology has failed to confront the political implications of the promotion of avant-garde music under Franco. I connect this void with the Spanish transition to democracy (1975-1978), which recent historians have called an exercise in amnesia, a discourse of forgiveness meant to promote reconciliation between Spaniards. As a result of this transition, the political implications of the activities of the composers and musicologists during the Franco years have been ignored or forgotten. The results of my thesis challenge the widely accepted view of the European avant-garde as a left-leaning movement. The main contribution of my thesis is precisely its substantial consideration of the cultural and political meanings of the avant garde and its context, using Franco’s Spain as a case in point.

This thesis examines organ reform in England between 1901 and 1965, an arena of practical music-making and intellectual and ideological debates in which a number of related practices surrounding the English organ – notably its scholarship, aesthetics of design, liturgical functions, native and foreign repertoires, including J. S. Bach’s organ music – played a central role in transforming the sound, design, and appearance of the instrument. Whilst influential musicians asserted that the English organ of the first half of the twentieth century was a great work of art, and survived in what could be termed ‘splendid isolation’ from Continental models, others contended that it lacked a logical relationship with more than a home-grown repertory. However, supporters of the English organ claimed that technological and tonal improvements made it the most perfect medium for Bach performance. It was a renewed interest in historical organs and repertory that exposed the limitations of cultural centrism, pointing to the English organ’s weakness as a point of departure for understanding its European repertory. This insistence paved the way for an enthusiastic reception of other organs, which, through their construction and new tonal qualities, won the favour of musicians who had found the English organ too limited and focused on a particular culture. The thesis allows historical actors to populate the discourse, revealing the diverse practices out of which a quest for reform emerged. As such the organ provides a fascinating and preliminary rehearsal case for what in the 1970s and 80s would be termed the early music revival.

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Orientador: Denise Hortencia Lopes Garcia / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T15:11:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rampin_DantasNeves_M.pdf: 9209358 bytes, checksum: 374af3500d1f2a9923260762214a4c2a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa reflete a relação entre a música do compositor norte americano Morton Feldman e o grupo de pintores do Expressionismo Abstrato The New York School of Visual Arts - partindo da ótica do próprio compositor. Abordamos a maneira como Feldman trabalhou concepções advindas da pintura na composição técnica e estética em sua música. Para discorrer sobre este tema, a dissertação apresenta uma breve contextualização histórica da década de 50, do século passado, momento do encontro de Feldman com os pintores. Em seguida, apresentamos as concepções desenvolvidas por Feldman em sua música derivadas da pintura. Para tanto, apresentaremos análises que nos permitam compreender como estas concepções se concretizam musicalmente através da história notacional do compositor. Do ponto de vista metodológico a pesquisa se vale das declarações do próprio compositor, de pesquisas que abordam o trabalho composicional de Morton Feldman e da análise de obras. Priorizamos a análise da peça Crippled Symmetry, já que ela apresenta uma das notações mais originais produzidas por Feldman, o que nos inspirou a composição de Sombras Sobre o Encoberto 11, peça que apresentamos neste trabalho como resultado composicional desta pesquisa. Nas considerações finais, além do resultado de Sombras Sobre o Encoberto 11, discutimos como as concepções utilizadas por Feldman a partir da pintura pode ser amplamente explorada como base composicional singular. / Abstract: This research is about the relation between the music of the American composer Morton Feldman and the group of painters of Abstract Expressionism The New York School of Visual Arts - from the point of view of himself. It will focus the way Feldman developed concepts drawn from painting in the technique and aesthetics of his music. Thus the dissertation presents a historical account of the 1950s, when Feldman and the painters met. Then we present concepts Feldman drew from painting and developed in his music. We provide analyses which allow us to understand how such concepts work musically throughout Feldman's notational history. The method of this research is based on Feldman's statements, researches about his compositional work and the analysis of pieces. Crippled symmetry, whose notation is among the most original devised by Feldman, undergoes extensive analysis. It has also been the inspiration for the composition of our work Sombras sobre o Encoberto II, We present this piece as the compositional outcome of this research. In addition to this piece, the conclusion shows how the concepts Feldman drew from painting can be vastly explored as a unique basis for the composition of music. / Mestrado / Mestre em Música